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Amazing Slow Motion Footage Using a High Speed Camera Robot

Super slow motion footage captured by high speed cameras usually shows slow movements (if any), but German studio The Marmalade came up with a brilliant way of speeding up the movements: a high-speed robot camera operator.

Our groundbreaking High Speed Motion Control System &#8216;Spike&#8217; brings the creative freedom of a moving camera to the world of high speed filming and so enables us to create shots that would be impossible to achieve otherwise. &#8216;Spike&#8217; can freely move the camera with unparalleled speed and precision, thereby removing the previously existing creative limitation of having to shoot high speed sequences with a locked camera.

By marrying the hardware of a sturdy and reliable industrial robot to software that was built from the ground up for the demands of motion controlled high speed imaging, we developed a unique system for creating real life camera moves with the ease of use normally associated with 3D Animation.

The system does camera moves that are exactly repeatable, allowing them to be slightly tweaked until the shot is just right.

Here&#8217;s another video filled with some incredible footage captured with the robot:

In this video we break down how to tail butter on skis in detail. We first teach you how to to slow and easy switch skidded turn 180 then we start doing switch tail butter 180 then 360. We gradually make it more difficult by increasing the size of roller and and we are finally having a look at how to tail butter 540.